Last March when my mom, my sis, and I loaded up in the car to make the drive to Galveston to embark on our cruise vacation, we all had different ideas of what music to listen to on the drive. My mom was SUPER excited about her new "favorite song". She had the cd in hand and was telling us how great it was. With sparkles of excitement and anticipation in her eyes, she said "OK...here it comes and you have to listen". Then she got into her dancing mode (the fists, the lips, the shoulders...) as the music started. Mindy and I had NO IDEA what was coming and man were we in for a shock! Oh it was a RIOT! Mindy and I couldn't believe our ears (although our eyes had long ago grown accustomed to Mom's "dancing") as we heard Trace Adkins energetically singing about a woman's "honky tonk badonkadonk". It is truly a piece of work. Oh, if you could have been in the car with us...my mom just dancin' away and Mindy and I there, in shock and disbelief yet laughing full force. Mindy knew I surely had loved it, as she has always known my love for the classic "Baby Got Back"...so this was like the best of two very different worlds...Sir Mix A Lot had gone country! We laughed as we listened to it a few more times until my Sis had had her fill with it and we all sat back to savor and digest the moment.
Today when I went to see my mom (as I am now doing every Wed.) I dug out that CD.... knowing it had to be somewhere. I hadn't heard the song since that fabulous trip and I was itchin' to! At last I found it and was super excited. I gave mom a sort of mischievous look and said "MOOOOOM, I have a song to play for you". I put it on and turned it up. Then I took her by the hands and stood her up to "dance" with me as I shook my booty enough for the both of us. I like to think she really enjoyed this break in her day and when I sat her back down, she gave me her standard response for good...a thumbs up. I hope that deep down, my mom was shakin' her booty too. :0)
I took the cd with me so I could enjoy it on the way home... And I immediately called my sis. I very seriously said "Hey, do you have a minute or two? I wanted to share something with you from today." She sounded all attentive, interested, and concerned at once as she replied "Oh..YES. Ok." I said "All right but you have to listen good." And then I held out the phone as my stereo blared the song for her....me singing at the top of my longs as background vocals. I'm not sure of my Sis's immediate response (since I obviously couldn't hear her if she did say anything), but I certainly enjoyed the shared moment with her. After a few fabulous lines from Trace, I got back on the phone...she giggled and I'm sure she was shaking her head at me. She asked if it was on the radio and I gladly told her that I snagged it from mom's house so I could make copies...one for me, and one for her of course. I don't think it's one that my sis will play cranked up at her house daily but I have no doubt that when nobody's there...when she has a moment to herself... she'll be stealing a moment to go listen...and grin as she shakes her head at my mom and I.
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So glad you posted!
What a hilarious moment both then and now that song causes. You need to YouTube it and post it so people can fully grasp the lyrics and accent in that song. One of a kind! Just like you and Mom are!
I love you!
I miss watching mom dance, but am glad you got her up to at least dance in spirit.
love,
me
Cajun Gal,
You may want to leave your mom with some class and dignity. SOME things are meant to be kept private. Some things, like Fredo, are better off left in Vegas, if you know what I mean.
Now I am stuck with the picture of your mother shaking her bum to a county version of Baby Got Back. Your mom dancing is probably the best thing about that picture.
Pablo